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J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor

J. Lorand Matory
Office Location:  201C Friedl Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  +1 919 684 9923
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Web Page:   https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/CA/faculty/j.lorand.matory/files/CV.pdf
Office Hours:   Thursdays: 1PM-3PM (20-minute intervals)

Curriculum Vitae
Education:
  • Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1991
  • M.A. The University of Chicago 1986
  • B.A. Harvard University 1982
Specialties:

Anthropology & History
Africa
African Diaspora
Transnationalism

Research Interests:

J. Lorand Matory is the Director of the Center for African and African American Research and Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He conducts field research in Brazil, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica and the US. Choice magazine named his Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion an Outstanding Book of the Year in 1994, and his Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé received the Herskovits Prize for the best book of 2005 from the African Studies Association. His forthcoming research on ethnic diversity at historically black Howard University was the subject of the 2008 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures and will be published in fall 2015 by the University of Chicago Press as Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America. In 2013, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award that is one of Europe's highest academic distinctions.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Matory, JL. "‘On the backs of Blacks’: the fetish and how socially inferior Europeans put down Africans to prove their equality with their own oppressors." History of European Ideas  (November, 2023): 1-4. [doi]
  2. Matory, JL. "基于白-黑肤色差异的族裔间不平等及其生成逻辑 (The Light-Dark Hierarchy of Human Worth)." Journal of Chinese National Community Studies (中华民族共同体研究)  vol. 2023 (1) no. 1 (January, 2023): 143-176. (translated by Liu, D)
  3. Matory, L. ""Was Marx a Fetishist?"." Extrablatt  vol. 2022 no. 19 (February, 2022).  [abs]
  4. Matory, L. ""The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory Interview with Kristian Petersen." Religious Studies News. Edited by Petersen, K.  (July, 2020).
  5. Matory, JL. "O navio de volta para casa: Tropos analíticos como mapas da e para a história cultural da diáspora africana." Contemporânea - Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar  vol. 10 no. 3 ( 2020): 969-993. [doi]

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